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To the Hermitage tells two tales: a contemporary story of our narrator, a novelist, who has been invited to Stockholm and then to Russia to take part in what is enigmatically referred to as the Diderot Project, and one set two hundred years earlier in which Bradbury brilliantly recreates Diderot's journey to Russia to entertain and enlighten the mind of...

A thrilling blend of adventure and spy novel, The Thirty-Nine Steps has been continuously in print since first publication in 1915 and has been adapted for stage and screen multiple times, including Alfred Hitchcock's famous film adaptation. ‘Ordinary fellow’ Richard Hannay returns home one night and is horrified to find a dead body. He recognises the murdered man as his...

From the bestselling, award-winning master of uncanny fiction comes a defining work, twenty years in the making - a deeply moving, decade- and continent-spanning epic of grief, global tumult, and grim conspiracy. Maur's life has been shaped by an unbearable loss. But in the aftermath of what is an apparently ordinary tragedy, deeper, stranger questions arise... Their answers may lie...

The beloved French bestseller by Jean-Paul Didierlaurent, The Reader on the 6.27, shows how books truly are the answer to all life's problems. Parisian book pulping plant worker Guylain struggles to get the most out of his days, growing tired of the monotony of his life. His only joy comes from the spontaneity of his performances aboard the 6.27 metro,...

Sometimes ordinary people can make an extraordinary difference . . . Meet Gracie. At mid-life, she's fed up with her unhappy marriage and humdrum career, so when a new housing estate threatens to sever the last connection to her late father, the oak tree he planted as a child, she decides to take a stand—only, Gracie has never stood up...

From the multimillion-copy bestselling author of The Women and The Nightingale, Summer Island is a poignant, warm and tender novel about a mother and daughter: the complex ties that bind them, the past that separates them, and the healing that comes with forgiveness. Years ago, Nora Bridge walked out on her marriage and left her daughters behind. She has since...

An Esquire Best Book of the Summer (2025) 'Beautiful, thought-provoking and meaningful' - Nussaibah Younis, Women's Prize 2025 shortlisted author of Fundamentally 'A bold, intriguing act of imagination' - Aube Rey Lescure, Women's Prize shortlisted author of River East, River West 'We may look the same, but I am not you . . . We share nothing but a reflection...

Centuries from now, an orphan adrift in an American city grows up to become a pincher. Stealing electricity from the grid to power the vibrant downtown music scene she adores is a risky occupation, and the city she moves through can be dangerous. She is right to be wary. But soon, she is drawn into a paranoid maze where her...

A gripping page-turner you'll want to stay up all night to finish. - Amy Tintera, New York Times bestselling author of Listen for the Lie After a true crime podcast reopens her cousin's murder case, a woman must confront her past at a glamorous European castle-turned-hotel where she follows a trail of toxic family secrets and deadly lies in this...

Horror, crime, and coming-of-age genres collide wildly in Sarah Wang's inventive and brilliant debut novel - Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick and The Four Spent the Day Together When Linli Feng returns home to LA after three years' absence she is aghast at what she finds. Her mother, Fanny, is unrecognisable. In her endless quest to achieve the...

Stuart Treece, a forty-year-old professor and head of English, now rather set in his ways (Hannibal Lecter is not on his syllabus), is made to feel somewhat alien by his encounters with a younger generation whose values are decidedly at odds with his own. In this witty tragi-comedy, the hero's attempts to come to terms with his new situation are...

A hard diamond of a novel... I have not stopped thinking of it since - Coco Mellors Every sentence keeps you hanging in the air, waiting for the next punch to the gut - Miranda Cowley Heller Packs a huge emotional punch. I couldn't put it down - Daily Mail A living thing... A huge achievement - Financial Times Perfect...

In Vanity Fair, two young women—sharp-witted Becky Sharp and gentle Amelia Sedley—navigate love, war, and society's hypocrisies in a world where charm and cunning often outweigh virtue. Set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, Thackeray's masterpiece exposes the moral emptiness of Victorian England with biting humour and unforgettable characters. First published in 1847, this enduring classic remains one of...

Anne Elliot is persuaded to reject the love of her life, Captain Wentworth, when her good friend Lady Russell hints that there is a better match to be found. Now eight years later, Anne's family has been forced to retrench and move to Bath. But while visiting her married sister, Anne meets Captain Wentworth again, who is now a wealthy...

This deluxe hardback edition presents George Eliot's enduring classic, Middlemarch, featuring stunning cover embossing and printed page edges. Described by some as the greatest novel in the English Language, Middlemarch paints a captivating portrait of provincial life at the time of the Industrial Revolution. The story follows the idealistic Dorothea Brooke and the pioneering Tertius Lydgate and their disastrous marriages...

Jane Austen's witty, beloved classic on misguided matchmaking is beautifully presented in a deluxe hardback edition with printed page-edges. Albeit that she is not yet 21, Emma Woodhouse foresees a future as a spinster dabbling in matchmaking. Charming and infuriating, she almost ruins the marriage prospects of Harriet Smith, her protégée, after misguidedly attempting to match Harriet with the local...

Jenny Pattrick's number-one bestselling novel is bound in a beautifully crafted, clothbound hardback edition for the Penguin Modern Aotearoa Classics series A stunning foil-stamped hardback cover makes this edition of Jenny Pattrick's classic novel a must have for any serious collector's library. High on a windswept West Coast plateau lies a bleak coal-mining settlement that makes or breaks those who...

Patricia Grace's timeless novel bound in a beautifully crafted, clothbound hardback edition for the Penguin Modern Aotearoa Classics series "...a book that has a simplicity that can break your heart and a complexity that can dazzle your mind and, for me, stands as Patricia Grace's towering achievement." Andy Barnes, Belletrista A stunning foil-stamped hardback cover makes this edition of Patricia Grace's...

Maurice Gee's signature novel bound in a beautifully crafted, clothbound hardback edition for the Penguin Modern Aotearoa Classics series A stunning foil-stamped hardback cover makes this edition of Maurice Gee's classic novel a must have for any serious collector's library. Long regarded as one of the finest novels ever written by a New Zealander, and introducing one of its most...

THE THRILLING NEW NOVEL FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OFLOVE MARRIAGE AND BRICK LANE Don't make it worse. Don't make a scene. Don't say it out loud. Best friends Nilofer and Imogen live in the same close London world: thriving careers,comfortable homes, children at the same good schools. They can tell each othereverything - until suddenly they can't. Then...

Rua is a young Maori woman learning to navigate the world on her own terms. She dreams of becoming a writer and one day moving to New York City to begin a life far removed from the one she knows. In her tight-knit community, where whanau is everything and loyalty runs deep, gang tensions ripple through daily life, eroding the...

Jane Austen's classic novel with cover artwork from the major new feature film starring Daisy Edgar-Jones. The more I know of the world, the more am I convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much! Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the...

Experience a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Eileen Chang, 'a giant of modern Chinese literature' The New York Times, in this breathtaking, newly translated collection of her most masterful stories on love, regret and nostalgia. From one of the great Chinese authors of the twentieth century, these newly translated stories illuminate the most intimate matters of the human heart. Since childhood, Ruliang...

Immerse yourself in a brief encounter with Simone de Beauvoir, the pioneering feminist and existentialist thinker, in this pair of stories about two very different sisters and one disappointing man. Two sisters must find their way in a world designed to confine them. Marcelle is the elder sister, a woman whose ambitions focus on becoming the companion of a 'man...

Playful, sharp and fantastical: a new selection of writing by Leonora Carrington, the last great Surrealist. In 1940, Leonora Carrington — a twenty-two-year-old British-born Surrealist artist — was persuaded to flee France and the advancing German army for Spain. Already suffering from a psychotic break occasioned by the arrest of her lover by the Nazi authorities, she was soon confined...

When Rika accepts an unusual part-time job at the museum, she never expects to fall in love with Venus herself, in the joyful new novel from the author of Japanese cult hit Diary of a Void. When Rika Horauchi accepts an unusual new part-time job, she never expects to fall in love. Rika has been tasked with talking to Venus,...

Embark on a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Jacqueline Harpman, author of I Who Have Never Known Men, with this startling new collection of three never-before-translated stories, about orders given and defied. A startling new collection of three never-before-translated stories, from the author of I Who Have Never Known Men. In the wake of some unfathomable war, a woman wanders the forest,...

The lives of three teenage girls are torn apart by a secret in this gut-punch of a novel set in Doncaster in the early noughties—for fans of Eliza Clark and Megan Nolan. Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Goldsmiths Prize Longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize From the winner of the BBC National Short Story Award 'It feels...

The laugh-out-loud, painfully relatable new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author, about the myth of having it all, and how snap decisions can lead to big changes... Meet Fran. This is her to-do list: buy milk get promoted book dentist swerve PTA meeting practice gratitude be a better friend stop crying in Morrisons rescue relationship organise life stop keeping...

The new novel from the International Booker-shortlisted author of The Adventures of China Iron: a sumptuous and surreal historical reimagining of one of South America's best-known trans men, Antonio de Erauso. From deep in the wilds of the New World, Antonio de Erauso writes a letter to his aunt, the prioress of the convent he escaped as a young girl....

Embark on a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with J.G. Ballard, sci-fi's psychedelic pioneer, and this short collection of his most mesmerising and mind-blowing stories from his invented desert dystopia: Vermillion Sands. Welcome to Vermilion Sands, the fully automated desert-resort ready to fulfil your most exotic whims. Out over the towering Coral D, sky artists paint the sky with clouds. A musical statue...

Things: A Story of the Sixties by Georges Perec offers a cool, exacting portrait of a couple torn apart by consumer desire. A young couple build their lives around the objects they long to own. From furniture to clothes to carefully imagined interiors, their desires shape their sense of who they are - and who they might become. Yet satisfaction...

From the highly praised and award-winning author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, a sparklingly witty, feisty rollercoaster of a novel about one woman's—sometimes misguided—search for acceptance. Decadent. Daring. Delicious. From the multi-prize winning author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, the dazzlingly funny novel about one woman's (sometimes misguided) search for acceptance. 'The novel everyone is going...

Inspired by the life and work of Emily Brontë, this masterful, multi-award-winning book — acclaimed as the best Dutch novel published this century — pulls readers into a narrative that redefines time itself. In the early 1800s, in Yorkshire, Eliza May Drayden and her sisters live far from the public eye, devoted to their shared love of reading and writing...

A story of a consuming first love haunted by European history and family memory, and inspired by real events. An exhilarating debut novel about a life-changing romance in the long shadow of European history, inspired by the author's real discovery. Stunningly good Julia Boyd You won't be able to put it down Samantha Rose Hill Worthy of reading and rereading...

Experience a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Yi Mun-yol, one of Korea's greatest modern writers, in this haunting portrait of a wandering poet torn between art, poverty, and destiny. The life of a poet becomes a parable of hope in Yi Mun-yol's searching novella of art, status, and selfhood. With their family condemned as traitors, two young brothers are sent away in...

Enjoy a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, in this eerie tale of mesmerism, obsession, and unseen control. Arthur Conan Doyle's tense, unsettlingly supernatural tale of obsession and control. After Austin Gilroy's fiancée is hypnotised, he finds himself drawn into the orbit of the woman responsible—Miss Penclosa. Soon, disturbances begin to unsettle him: actions he cannot...

The Other Wife is a bold debut about race and class, love and nostalgia, and learning to live with the life we have chosen. Susan 'Zuzu' Braeburn is almost forty. She has the life she's always dreamed of - a beautiful house, a child, a successful partner. But something between her and Agnes has been off for a long time,...

Experience a brief encounter with Ernest Hemingway, Nobel Prize-winner and master of stripped-back prose, in this profound tale of endurance, dignity, and the eternal struggle between man and nature. Hemingway's enduring story of resilience and solitude: One of the most powerful tales of courage and endurance ever written. An ageing fisherman sets out alone into the Gulf Stream, determined to...

Experience a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Nobel Prize-Winner Yasunari Kawabata, and his remarkable fictional account of a world about to be cleft in two as two men battle to become the master of the strategy game, Go. Luminous, suspenseful and serene, The Master of Go is a compelling portrait, quietly devastating, of two men - and a whole society - facing...

A moving and heartfelt story about life, death and the miracles in between by the award-winning author of The Patterson Girls. What would you do if you thought each day on earth might just be your last? Lucky by name. Not so lucky by nature. Adopted twins Nora and Stevie Lucky have always been close, despite being total opposites. When...

A woman is unnerved when a sinister package arrives in the post—containing her old diary entries. Strange and gripping, this is the work of Marlen Haushofer, mistress of sustained dread and author of the cult classic, The Wall. An Austrian housewife sits in her loft intent on her drawings of birds and insects. Then one day a disturbing package arrives...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Thrilling ... helps explain how the little girl from South Alabama Avenue turned herself into a bestselling author.' Guardian 'Stories written with all of Lee's character and descriptive brilliance.' The Times 'Cast[s] a new light on the literary giant.' Sunday Times 'A new window into one of America's literary icons.' i Paper 'Unmistakably Lee' The...

Relish a brief encounter with Mary Shelley, the grand dame of the Gothic imagination, in this incredible trio of supernatural tales of longing and loss. Three supernatural tales of longing and loss from the grand dame of Gothic fiction, Mary Shelley. When a storm drives their boat towards the rocks, a group of sailors is saved by the light of...

A compelling novel about the effort to be perfect, without losing sight of yourself - by the most iconic feminist of the twentieth-century, Simone de Beauvoir. She's living a perfect life - so why does Laurence feel so torn? Weekends in the country, weekdays in Paris - Laurence's life features all the trappings of 1960s French bourgeoisie. She has money,...

From the author of the Booker nominated, international bestseller Nightcrawling: a novel about the joys and entanglements of a fierce group of teenage mothers in a Florida beach town. Adela, Emory, and Simone - three young women bound by chance, motherhood, and defiance. When Adela Woods is sent to her grandmother's house in a forgotten Florida beach town to have...

Macabre comedy, crime thriller, cosy romance: The Girls is a weird and wonderful tale of two women murderously desperate to stay together. In summer, and particularly when the wind blows south-west across the lawn, the sceptic tank gives out a strong stench... "Oh, it is a body," the girls say. "We have a body in there. No one you know....

In a town where horror movie tropes come to life, Riley's only chance to survive is to play his role, in this spine-tingling LitRPG series. DO YOU LIKE SCARY MOVIES? When horror fanatic Riley Lawrence arrives in the eerie town of Carousel for a local festival, he expects awkward tourists and maybe a disappointing haunted house. Instead, he and his...

Experience a brief encounter with James Joyce, the giant of modernism, in his haunting masterpiece of love, memory, and mortality. At a Christmas party, a revelation shatters a man's complacency forever. At a winter gathering in Dublin, friends and family come together for an evening of music, conversation and ritual. As the night unfolds, small tensions surface, and a chance...

Relish a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with F. Scott Fitzgerald, and his iconic, fairy-talesque story of a man aging backwards, from old age to birth. The classic, moving tale of a man born old, destined to die young, and live at odds with his time. To the confusion and embarrassment of his family, Benjamin Button is born an old man. As the...

Enjoy a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Colette, France's most daring chronicler of desire, in this sparkling story of love, society, and awakening. A Parisian comedy of manners where wit meets rebellion. Raised by her family to become a courtesan, young Gigi scandalises everyone by refusing the path laid out for her. Instead, she dares to seek love on her own terms....

Experience a BRIEF ENCOUNTER like no other, with Italo Calvino, the master of post-war experimental fiction, and his mind-bendingly brilliant novella about a travelling band of Tarot readers. A magical, mystical novella about the art and power of storytelling, this is Italo Calvino's miniature masterpiece. A group of travellers chance to meet, first in a castle, then in a tavern....

AN OBSERVER BEST NEW NOVELIST 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2025 AN OBSERVER BEST NEW NOVELIST 2025 'This summer's hottest read' SUNDAY TIMES 'You won't want to put it down' BRITISH VOGUE 'Sticky, twisting and dangerous' REBECCA K REILLY It's summer. An unnamed young man walks through the gates of a luxurious mansion in the South of...

Relish a Brief Encounter with Ingmar Bergman, cinematic visionary, in this tender autobiographical novel of childhood and awakening. One of cinema's great masters revisits his childhood—and the end of his parents' marriage—in a novella of awakening. Over the course of one summer, eight-year-old Pu Bergman realises that his parents are no longer in love. Surrounded by the quiet idyll of...

An irresistible, escapist and cosy read, where a woman leaves her busy life in Seoul to open a bookshop cafe in the countryside where guests can stay overnight. Welcome to Soyangri Book Kitchen In a peaceful village in the countryside, Yoojin has left behind the stresses of her city life in Seoul and created a book lovers' paradise, a sanctuary...

Venture on a brief encounter with Margaret Atwood, one of the most iconic writers of our time, in these stories of mothers, evoking laughter, compassion and recognition in us all. This miniature array of perfect stories by the legendary Margaret Atwood flashes before us the joys and despairs of mothers good and bad, evoking laughter, compassion and recognition in us...

A new selection of six short stories by one of Japan's most iconic twentieth-century writers. An adolescent girl narrates her day in an existential masterpiece that explores what it means to be a forming person in a fomenting society. A woman writes a farewell note to her husband, an artist who has driven her away with his counterfeit profundity and...

Relish a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Christopher Isherwood, the master chronicler of 1930s Berlin, with this dazzling tale of glamour and decadence, poverty and ambition. Sally Bowles is the dazzling centrepiece of Goodbye to Berlin, distilling Isherwood's genius into the tale of one bawdy, brilliant woman. 1930s Berlin is a realm of glamour and sleaze, repression and excess, threatened by a...

Experience a brief encounter with Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison in this masterful novella about race, ambiguity, and the unexpected connections that shape our lives. A stunning, timeless story about race, friendship, what keeps us apart and what drives us apart, from the one and only Toni Morrison, with an introduction by Zadie Smith. Twyla and Roberta met in a...

Experience a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Dylan Thomas, the Welsh poet of fire and music, in these lyrical, bittersweet stories of youth and memory. Dylan Thomas's vivid, affectionate portrait of youth - and the journey towards finding one's own artistic voice. A boy grows up in a small Welsh town, moving through school, family life, and first encounters with the wider...

Slip into a brief encounter with Haruki Murakami, Japan's most celebrated contemporary storyteller, and his nostalgic, jazz-soaked love letter to a youth spent in pursuit of simple pleasures. A nostalgic, jazz-soaked love letter to a youth spent in pursuit of simple pleasures, from Japan's most celebrated contemporary storyteller, Haruki Murakami. Haunted by memories of a doomed love affair, and living...

Experience a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Nella Larsen and her devastating masterpiece of two women navigating a friendship in a racially divided world. The classic 1920s story of a friendship torn apart, Passing is Nella Larsen's devastating masterpiece. Irene Redfield is living a life of careful balance in Harlem when a chance encounter draws her back into the orbit of Clare...

A new translation by David Bellos of the last great novel by France's greatest novelist. In the turmoil of the French Revolution, the year 1793 represented the peak of bloody revolutionary violence. Victor Hugo plunges into this tumultuous period with a story of courage and betrayal across the political classes. As the revolution rages, three characters—a nobleman turned revolutionary, a...

A profound exploration of colonialism, from one of the Caribbean's most powerful literary voices. A powerful reimagining of the age of European exploration, Natives of My Person tells the story of a nameless Commandant who sets sail under imperial orders—somewhere between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries—to locate the fabled island of San Cristobal, a place shrouded in myth and promise....

Relish a brief encounter with Franz Kafka, the great chronicler of anxiety and estrangement, in this collection of uncanny animal tales led by his masterpiece, Josephine the Singer, or The Mouse Folk. Five of Franz Kafka's most compelling short animal stories, where fable, dark humour and unease collide. A community gathers to listen to the singing of a mouse. An...

Experience a brief encounter with Kurt Vonnegut, the satirical genius, in his thought-provoking dystopian tales that challenge the status quo. Four of Kurt Vonnegut's best dystopian stories, Monkey Business distils his darkly comic vision of the modern world and the cost of trying to engineer a better life. In a future where everyone is forced to be equal, a gifted...

Choose life. Choose love? Feel the heat of rave and romance in the Sunday Times bestselling sequel to Trainspotting. It's the late 1980s. Separated after a drug deal gone wrong, Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie each want to feel alive. They fill their days with sex and romance and trying to get ahead; they follow the call of the...

Experience a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Fumiko Enchi, a leading female voice in Japanese literature, and her unforgettable exploration of identity and tradition. Masks is Enchi's elegant, seductive story of sexual deception, revenge, and the haunting legacy of the past. Ibuki loves widow Yasuko, who is young, charming, and sparkling with intelligence. His friend, Mikame, desires her too, but that is...

Discover the uncanny and exceptional history of the X-Men. Jean Grey, Storm, Wolverine, Cyclops, Rogue, Kitty Pryde, Gambit, Professor X: these heroes are only a few of the legends that the X-Men count among their ranks. Ever since they made their first appearance in The X-Men #1 (1963), the X-Men have been stalwarts in Marvel's incredible pantheon of characters. From...

Experience a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Jane Austen, the most elegant satirist of manners, in her wickedly sharp novella of seduction, wit, and deceit. Outrageous, and wickedly funny, Lady Susan introduces Jane Austen at her most scandalous. Recently widowed and dangerously charming, Lady Susan Vernon arrives among her relatives determined to secure her own advantage. Through a flurry of letters, alliances...

Relish a brief encounter with Virginia Woolf, modernist pioneer, in this radiant prose-poem of gardens, voices, and shifting perspectives. In a single afternoon's walk, Virginia Woolf captures the infinite life of a garden... A couple pause among the flowerbeds, their thoughts drifting apart. A woman's mind fixes on a small, troubling mark on the wall. A chance meeting becomes an...

A dazzling tapestry of myth, fantasy and folk tale from Argentina's great writer of speculative fiction, in a translation by Ursula K. Le Guin. In city squares and golden palaces, a series of storytellers recount the history of the greatest Empire that never was: a history in which orphans rise from the underworld to the throne, mad emperors raze cities,...

A powerful debut about grief, faith and family from an exciting new voice. 'Rich, evocative and beautifully written: a meditation on faith, grief and belonging. A wonderful debut' - Nussaibah Younis 'A breathtaking debut' - Foluso Agbaje 'A remarkable debut written with depth and clarity' - Chibundu Onuzo 'Heartbreakingly beautiful, witty, humane and transcendent - an unforgettable debut' - Lauren...

Relish a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Richard Brautigan, the whimsical poet of the counterculture, in his surreal and enchanting novel, In Watermelon Sugar. A psychedelic post-apocalyptic vision of a world on the brink of civil war... In iDEATH, the sun shines a different colour every day. It is a happy place, made of watermelon, and its inhabitants travel the length of...

An unnamed narrator who has fled a set of friends she despised, who bring out the very worst in her and each other, finds herself once more sat at their dinner table for a single, hideous evening. The funny, propulsive new novel about hating your friends, hating what they bring out in you, hating how you pander to them, the...

Embark on a haunting Brief Encounter with Toni Cade Bambara, one of America's finest activist authors, in this heartbreaking elegy that 'puts the reader at the heart of the horror that came to be called the Atlanta child murders' Toni Morrison. At once a gripping thriller and a heartbreaking elegy, this is Toni Cade Bambara's powerful final testament, a hymn...

Embark on a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Anita Desai, a master observer of human connection, in this poignant novella about family, female oppression, and unexpected freedoms. Vivid and alive, this powerful novella about one woman's belated rebellion against the powers that be is Anita Desai at her finest. Nanda Kaul retreats to a quiet house in the hills, determined to live...

Relish a brief encounter with Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Africa's foremost voice of resistance, in this fierce collection of stories about defiance, sacrifice, and survival. Ngugi wa Thiong'o's stories of rebellion and sacrifice, where ordinary lives burn with extraordinary courage. In these tales of rebellion and sacrifice, ordinary lives burn with extraordinary courage. From fighters taking up arms against colonial rule...

The cult drama of The Girls meets Yellowface's searing exploration of lies, immigration, and identity in this propulsive literary thriller debut. A grieving actor-turned-memoirist reimagines his mother's encounter with Jonestown's Jim Jones—except it's mostly all lies... Actor Jal Persad is enjoying moderate success when the death of his mother, Rita, sends him into a tailspin—after all, how could he grieve...

Relish a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Richard Wright, trailblazing voice of African American literature, in this devastating story of survival, love and betrayal during a Southern flood. A flood brings not only rising waters but the full force of a brutal, racist world. With the Mississippi flooding, a Black farmer struggles to get his pregnant wife to safety. In the chaos,...